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EMILEJ. IRLANDE, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

-DECORATlVE PAINTING ON GLASS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,164, dated November18, 1884,

Application filed April 2, 1884. (Specimens) T0 ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE J OSEPH Ir.- LANDE, of the city of New York,in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovementiu Decorative Paint ing on Glass, of which the following is aspecification.

My improvement consists in the novel meth-v tine, six ounces; varnish,eight ounces, thus forming an opaque backing. Then, after this film ofpaint has stiffened sufficiently not to run, but while it is yet capableof readily mingling with or being permeated by analogous paints of othercolors, I apply to its surface, with a brush or by any suitable means, apaint or paints of such colors as may be adapted to produce the effectwhich may be desired, as seen through the glass from the opposite side.The peculiarity of this process is that colors applied as described tothe surface of the film of nioist paint penetrate and blend with it, sothat when they reach the glass they are softened and shaded by diffusionand combination with the said backing, producing a peculiarly beautifuleffeet as seen through the glass on a front view. All the mineral paintsmixed with oil or turpentine or an equivalent are suitable both for thepurpose of the backing-film and for the colors to be applied asdescribed to the said film. In the practicing of this process the artistmay employ his skill in the selection and combination of colors toproduce such effects as he may desire or fancy.

The process is specially applicable to the embellishment of photographson glass. In this department the best effects are produced with thisprocess in connection with What are known as carbon prints. After theprint has been transferred to the glass I cover the entire surface ofthe glass on the side to which the print is attached with the film ofwhite mineral paint, and then apply as described. the embellishing coloror colors as before set forth. If it is not desired to tint thephotograph itself, I limit the decoration to the background of thepicture, or the space surrounding the picture as seen from the front.This I do by applying the color or colors only to those portions of thewhite film that form the background of the picture.

In order that the effect of such coloring of the background may not beimpaired or interfered with by any photographic discoloration whileunder the negative, I recommend overlaying the negative during exposurewith translucent tracing-paper and covering with some opaque pigment orother suitable substance all parts of the paper except that overlayingthe figure in the negative. No discoloration of the negative will thentake place' beyond the outlines of the picture, and therefore nodiscoloration will be transferred with the figure to the glass outsideof the figure, thus leaving the glass outside of the figure clear toshow alone the effect ofthe embellishing colors when applied asdescribed.

After the embellishing colors are applied as set forth, I prefer tocover all with another coating of the same kind of paint first appliedto form the described film. This protects the underlying paint, and in ameasure enhances the effect of the embellishing colors.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The described method of decorating glass, consisting in covering theglass with a film of paint of one color, and then, while the same isstill soft and permeable by other analogous paint, applying in spots tothe exposed surface of said film a paint or paints of another color orcolors, as and for the purpose described.

2. Glass decorated as describednamel y, by being first coated with afilm of paint of one color, to which, when suitably dried as described,is applied in spots a paint of another color, by reason whereof saidglass presents on its reverse side variegated and blended colors, asdescribed.

EMILE J. IRLANDE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT J ACKSON, J. I. Frrorr.

